Employment, Health and Safety

The Employment, Health and Safety (EHS) WG focuses on EU social and employment legislation, predominantly with an employer's perspective. It primary task is to represent ETNO on the EU's Social Dialogue Committee for the Telecommunications Sector.

Topics

Work Organisation

The impact of technological changes on work organisation, focussing on new forms of work organisation such as Telework, and the social implications of new forms of selling and distribution such as call centres or e-commerce.

Policy and regulation

The Working Group will consider the impact of (adopted and draft) policy issues, exclusively from an employment perspective.

Training and Skills

Skill shortages and obstacles to employment in the sector, links between training institutions and the industry, developing the potential of employees to adapt to new technologies, particularly for new products and services.

Equal Opportunities

Diversity in the workplace, initiatives to counter discrimination. In 2014, UNI Europa and ETNO produced a joint statement on gender equality and the promotion of women in ICT.

The EHS WG Chair is Gregory Gillet, Orange.

RELATED NEWS

Today, 17th January, UNI Europa – the European trade union federation for the services sector – and its social partner, ETNO, the Association representing Europe’s leading providers of digital networks and services, held a high-level workshop on mental health in the new world of work.

Brussels, 27 September 2017 – Europe has lost as much as €100m in telco EBIT each day to digital disruptors and telcos in other regions for the past 10 years, which has impoverished the bloc’s digital economy. However, if industry and regulators embrace transformation, Europe can gain up to €4bn/day by being at the centre of the digital ecosystem, according to Accenture Strategy research conducted for ETNO.

Brussels, 22 September 2014 - During the Plenary Meeting of the European Social Dialogue Committee on Telecommunications, the social partners UNI Europa and the European Telecommunication Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) signed a Joint Declaration on gender equality.

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ETNO is the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association. We proudly represent Europe’s main telecom operators, who innovate and invest in the continent's digital backbone. Our companies are the providers of Europe's most advanced digital networks and services. ETNO's mission is to develop a positive policy and regulatory environment empowering the delivery of world-class services for European citizens and businesses.